Swift find all occurrences of a substring

Question

I have an extension here of the String class in Swift that returns the index of the first letter of a given substring.

Can anybody please help me make it so it will

Answer 1

This could be done with recursive method. I used a numeric string to test it. It returns an optional array of Int, meaning it will be nil if no substring can be found.

extension String {
    func indexes(of string: String, offset: Int = 0) -> [Int]? {
        if let range = self.range(of : string) {
            if !range.isEmpty {
                let index = distance(from : self.startIndex, to : range.lowerBound) + offset
                var result = [index]
                let substr = self.substring(from: range.upperBound)
                if let substrIndexes = substr.indexes(of: string, offset: index + distance(from: range.lowerBound, to: range.upperBound)) {
                    result.append(contentsOf: substrIndexes)
                }
                return result
            }
        }
        return nil
    }
}

let numericString = "01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789"
numericString.indexes(of: "3456")